11 MARCH 1871, Page 3

The London School Board after a long debate, have adopted

Mr. W. H. Smith's motion to read and explain the Bible in the schools, with reserves expressly enjoining that no attempt what- ever shall be made to influence any pupil in the direction of any sectarian view. But these long theoretic debates in the London School Board are exciting a good deal of impatience. Why don't they adopt the Privy Council's statistics as to the Educational wants of London, and set to work at once at the organization of the new school system? Fair words, as the proverb says, butter no parsnips ; and certainly they civilize no street Arabs.